Re: Error while compile snort with mysql version 4.0.17

[Dirk Geschke <Dirk () geschke-online de>]

Hi, Bclark,

> Commands I used:
> ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql
> make

[...]

> gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -o
> snort  codes.o debug.o decode.o log.o mstring.o parser.o plugbase.o
> snort.o snprintf.o strlcatu.o strlcpyu.o tag.o ubi_BinTree.o
> ubi_SplayTree.o util.o detect.o signature.o mempool.o sf_sdlist.o
> fpcreate.o fpdetect.o pcrm.o byte_extract.o sfthreshold.o packet_time.o
> event_wrapper.o output-plugins/libspo.a detection-plugins/libspd.a
> preprocessors/libspp.a preprocessors/flow/portscan/libportscan.a
> preprocessors/flow/int-snort/libintsnort.a preprocessors/flow/libflow.a
> parser/libparser.a preprocessors/HttpInspect/libhttp_inspect.a
> sfutil/libsfutil.a -lpcre -lpcap -lm -lnsl  -lmysqlclient
> /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(my_compress.o)(.text+0xb4): In
> function `my_compress_alloc':
> : undefined reference to `compress'

you are linking against the static library of libmysql. Add the
option "-lz" either to the Makefile manually, add it to the above
linker line or add it to the LDFLAGS before you invoke configure like:

LDFLAGS="-lz" ./configure ...

Best regards

Dirk



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